The first table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Management over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Management
Rank 12 17 16
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 12 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 8.759% 4.348% 4.375%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.91% 6.494% 6.306%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £400 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +20.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £15.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+152.00% -34.78%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
110 77 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 80.29% 66.96% 69.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 38
Average daily rate £388 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £435 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Change Management
Cheshire

Change Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Chester Change Management Jobs Demand Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region.

Chester Change Management Daily Rate Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chester Change Management Daily Rate Histogram

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region.

Chester Change Management Hourly Rate Trend

Change Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Change Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Change Management.

1 12 (54.55%) ITIL
2 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 7 (31.82%) Service Management
4 6 (27.27%) Project Management
4 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
5 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 5 (22.73%) Windows
5 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Degree
6 4 (18.18%) Lean Six Sigma
6 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (18.18%) AIX
6 4 (18.18%) MS Office
6 4 (18.18%) UNIX
6 4 (18.18%) Tru64
6 4 (18.18%) Six Sigma
7 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.64%) Finance
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
7 3 (13.64%) OLTP
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (13.64%) Replication
7 3 (13.64%) Load Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Data Integration

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Change Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.091%) HTML
1 2 (9.091%) J2EE
1 2 (9.091%) SOAP
1 2 (9.091%) Flash
1 2 (9.091%) Hibernate
1 2 (9.091%) Spring
1 2 (9.091%) Apache Flex
1 2 (9.091%) REST
2 1 (4.545%) Web Services
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Office
2 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) SNMP
1 2 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.091%) DNS
1 2 (9.091%) TELNET
2 1 (4.545%) Wireless
2 1 (4.545%) LAN
2 1 (4.545%) WLAN
2 1 (4.545%) WAN
2 1 (4.545%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.64%) OLTP
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (9.091%) MySQL
3 2 (9.091%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.091%) IDMS
3 2 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.091%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) JUnit
1 2 (9.091%) Eclipse
1 2 (9.091%) JIRA
1 2 (9.091%) Selenium
1 2 (9.091%) TestNG
1 2 (9.091%) MyEclipse
1 2 (9.091%) Mercurial
1 2 (9.091%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Retail
2 2 (9.091%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Coordinator
2 6 (27.27%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) DBA
3 4 (18.18%) Change Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (9.091%) Configuration Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Developer
4 2 (9.091%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (4.545%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.545%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) Process Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Replication
1 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
2 2 (9.091%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.091%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.091%) Clustering
2 2 (9.091%) Computer Science
2 2 (9.091%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) AIX
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX
2 4 (18.18%) Tru64
3 2 (9.091%) Android
3 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.091%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) ITIL
2 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 7 (31.82%) Service Management
4 6 (27.27%) Project Management
5 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Lean Six Sigma
6 4 (18.18%) Six Sigma
6 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) Load Testing
8 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.091%) Service Delivery
8 2 (9.091%) Scrum
8 2 (9.091%) Information Security
9 1 (4.545%) Information Management
9 1 (4.545%) Network Design
9 1 (4.545%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.545%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.091%) Java
4 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) VMware ESX
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.091%) PowerHA
2 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle
1 2 (9.091%) SAP
1 2 (9.091%) Red Hat
1 2 (9.091%) Remedy
1 2 (9.091%) VMware
1 2 (9.091%) Adobe
2 1 (4.545%) HP
2 1 (4.545%) NetApp
2 1 (4.545%) Brocade
2 1 (4.545%) Cisco
2 1 (4.545%) IBM
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